Grazing history affects the tree-line ecotone: A case study from Hardanger, Western Norway

Fennia

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 81-98

  Potthoff, Kerstin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; DATA SET; DISTURBANCE; ECOTONE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GRAZING; GROUND COVER; LIGHT EFFECT; MOUNTAIN REGION; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SAMPLING; SAPLING; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TREELINE; UNDERSTORY;

HARDANGER; HORDALAND; NORWAY;

EID: 80052404881     PISSN: 00150010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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